Do you remember when you realized that the whole world did not eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and jump off the swing into the sandbox?
             There is a point in every child's life where the spell of youth is broken and the harsh, devil-may-care views of mature existence are revealed. In the short story "A & P" a boy goes through a coming-of-age of sort, and sees society as it exists from an adult viewpoint.
             Sammy works in a grocery store: The A & P. A grocery store is an establishment of explicit order and organization, a bustling center where everything, even herring snacks, has its own section or aisle. The only chaos that inhabits a grocery store is that one unruly wheel on your shopping cart. As shoppers walk under that electric eye in the door, the chilling produce air and elevator music consumes them and immediately they kick into grocery mode. After grabbing a cart, they join the herd of sheep already shopping in the store. Sammy spends the majority of his days in this fluorescent-lit wonderland watching the sheep roll by.
             Sammy works in a grocery store: The A & P. A grocery store is an establishment of explicit order and organization, a bustling center where everything, even herring snacks, has its own section or aisle. The only chaos that inhabits a grocery store is that one unruly wheel on your shopping cart. The store pretty empty, it being Thursday afternoon, so there was nothing much to do except lean on the register. Being in the middle of town that hadn't seen the ocean for a long time, it seems to be a place off the beach where a lot of retired families go for vacation. As shoppers walk under that electric eye in the door, the chilling produce air and elevator music consumes them and immediately they kick into grocery mode. The sheep pushing their carts down the aisle-the girls were walking against the usual traffic. After grabbing a cart, they join the herd of sheep already shopping...